In a lengthy opinion written for the Court majority, Justice Black recounted the history of religion in America. The earliest settlers, many of whom had come to this land seeking religious freedom, had determined that the best way to achieve that freedom was to give government no power to aid religion, or the authority to support religion or any particular faith in any way.


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